Judy Mottl

Sony Ericsson is jumping full-bore into the smartphone industry, and landing its entry, the XPERIA X1, among a very crowded playing field. That’s no mean feat when the competition already includes Apple’s iPhone, Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry and the Palm Treo family. Scheduled for market sometime after this June, the XPERIA is a “converged” […]

BlackBerry users went without email for three hours Monday and by some news account you’d think Armageddon had it North America. Really, how big a deal is it to go without email? Just imagine being told by your boss not to launch your email application for a full day. Instead you’re told to rely on […]

Monday’s BlackBerry e-mail outage surely angered more than a few of Research in Motion’s 12.5 million users, coming as it did during peak workday hours. Despite the latest incident, RIM’s enterprise customers seem content to remain with the service, experts say. Granted, the scope of the outage proved smaller than with previous problems last year. […]

In what wireless analysts describe as a savvy customer loyalty program, AT&T is tying its Wi-Fi services onto the Starbucks bandwagon, adding 7,000 ‘hotspots’ to its current 17,000 in play. In return the coffee seller gets to tap 5 million of AT&T’s remote access business customers, as well as 12 million broadband and Internet service […]

Continuing to refresh its storage technologies, IBM today rolled out a sweeping array of enhancements to products for both enterprises and small and midsize businesses (SMB) — as well as dusting more “feature-shine” on an offering for telecom plays. IBM’s latest product enhancements aim to provide customers with cheaper, faster and more efficient storage solutions, […]

It might just be that there are just as many business intelligence software solutions coming into the market as there are business intelligence definitions being bantered about. One of the latest is Greenplum, a San Mateo-based startup that released the third version of what it’s claiming is now “world’s first Internet-scale” database. An open source […]

Unstructured data — those Word docs, video files, e-mails and text messages not tethered to a database — can cause a bucket load of worry for IT teams. Unauthorized access to loose files can lead to data theft. Not knowing who’s accessing what data — as well as when and why — can put intellectual […]

Disaster recovery software provider Neverfail Group is adding a VMware module to its roster of tools, in a move to capitalize on enterprises’ burgeoning interest in virtualization. Neverfail’s new module protects VMware’s VirtualCenter Server, a component within VMware VirtualCenter that acts as the central control node in configuring, provisioning and managing virtualized IT environments. The […]

Clearwell Systems is pushing out a new enterprise version of its e-discovery platform, featuring 60 new features that range from de-duplication functionality to expanded support of data sources and languages. The four-year-old vendor’s Clearwell E-Discovery Platform 3.0 version can be installed and running in under a half hour, according to Kamal Shah, vice president of […]

If you think everyone’s outsourcing tech work these days, think again. In fact more enterprises than not are keeping IT work home, or at least close to home. “It’s [offshore outsourcing] not happening as much as some people think. While there has been pretty good IT employment news for a while, this just adds to […]

Yes. You read that right. Dell and smartphone development. That’s just one of the many rumors swirling around the smartphone industry these days. Another is that Google’s going to come clean about what it’s up with its mobile platform Android. (Meanwhile it’s Google that Dell is supposedly working with on a cell phone product.) Given […]

With a new version of a number of its key backup and recovery applications, enterprise software vendor CA is aiming to deliver more robust data protection capabilities that improve security — while being easier to manage and purchase. The latest version of its Recovery Management apps include enhancements to the product’s ARCserve Backup, XOsoft High […]